Arizona silver belt., 1887-05-07
N'omsn, Larely woa,aa,
b V. B.. in tbe Olabe. lleaaeI.,t. ]

Wonats, 6aNciy NGntafg
 D V. B, in tbe Globe,pemoorat
 l have wondered much that men
 have chatted and written so much
 about women. Yet I fan into the
 Fashion and take my pen for the like. It argues a kind of emiueuce assumed,
 when men make women tha subject oi
 reasoning, Us ii she were a contested piece in human science. But not to de it is difficult as now feel by wish
 ing to do it. and so 1t be reverent, as one might study any very great thing
 the mind, or soul or the sun, or stars, or space, or time---there may be a place for 1t, However, it must be
 owned that the much-talk of men con.
 eerning women has been very little to mems credit as yet; for can think of
 but four reasons why men should like so much to discuss women, and innoGe of them have these ',lords of creation shown themselves gracefully. The first reason may be that women are great mysteries which indeed may be granted; but men look but stupid to know them so little after venting thelr wisdom on thsm for these thous. ands of years. Another reason may
 be to show the superiority of the men which is flat impudence and vast vanity, wherein men make themselves aconyex mWror to their fellows wit, SAa magnify each other foolishly. Another reason may be for love of the women; but this has been little to mems honor, for they have dealt with the love of women like child with a kitten, clutching 1t so as to styanglei it. Finally, men may hasten to reason about women, perhaps, for the beauty and charm of the subject. But here an they should be cautious, as they have not been on two occasions: tl) Lest they look the worse by contrast, and @ lest they deal with the beauty 50 as to mar it. like a poor critic be- dragging a picture or poem with fTis praise. Wherefore, say, to req son about women is very yentnrescme, and men have come out of it with small credit; for if they have sought to solve a mystery they have failed if to show their own excellence, they have unclad a vanity; If to show love, they have been awkward if to praise beauty, they have but shattered of it. Wherefore small result has come Of all the proud talk of man. One wri- ter has called woman kind of mon key. Another says they have no reason. Another believes they have no soul The Church fathers called them the cause of all the evil in the world. The Arabs have saying of the Prophet, T stood at the gate otI Paradise, and, To, most Of its inmates were the poor; and l stood at the gate of hell, and, lo, most of its inmates were women; and at the creation of women the devil exclaimed, "Thou art half my host, and thou art the deposi- tory of my secret and thou art my arrow with which l shoot and miss not. But Mandeville, in tho Fable ct the Bees, thinks women much su- perior to men, because, as athe work manship in the make of women seems to be more elegant and better finished, the features more delicate, the voice swester, the whole outside of them more euriously wove, than tlley are in men, and the difference in the skin between theirs and ours the same as there is between fine cloth and coarse. there is no reason to imagine that Ma { ture should have been more neglectf,l of them out of sight than she was where we can trace her, and not have taken the same care in the formation of the brain, as to the nIcety of ths { structure and superior accuracy in the fabric, which is so visible in the rest of their frame.p On these grounds Vaudeville supposes that "what tho women excel in is tho goodness of the instrument, either in the harmony or pliableness of the organs, which must be very material ia the art of think ing, and is the only thing that deserves tho name of natural parts From all ! which it appears that men, with all their chatter of reasoning, have not decided together whether women are like monkeys or finer than the best men. Whereby 1t $ plain that the men have shown themselves either ali { very stupid or some very ill,tempered, 1 or SC yaporing with vanity as te bs- lsaguer a subject too great for the wit of the best of them.
 .------------a au,-.-----s-----,.---
 A description of a visit to tbe Czar shows him to bO guarded and protect ed te an extcns almost inconceiyabls.